Flores v. Lemee
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OP PROBATES, POR THE PARISH OP NATCHITOCHES. This is an action by the surviving wife, against ti istrator of her deceased husband’s estate, to reco^ of two thousand five hundred dollars, the amt donation propter nuptias, made in their marriage passed before a justice of the peace, the 21st Nover She alleges, she has a right to take out of any succession of her deceased husband this sum, wfiteh she^ demands from the administrator.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OP PROBATES, POR THE PARISH OP NATCHITOCHES. This is an action by the surviving wife, against ti istrator of her deceased husband’s estate, to reco^ of two thousand five hundred dollars, the amt donation propter nuptias, made in their marriage passed before a justice of the peace, the 21st Nover She alleges, she has a right to take out of any succession of her deceased husband this sum, wfiteh she^ demands from the administrator. A copy of the marriagir contract is annexed, and judgment prayed thereon for the sum claimed. The defendant pleaded a general denial. The only…
1Opinion of the CourtSimon, J.
This suit is brought by a widow, who sues the administrator of the estate of her husband, for the recovery of two thousand five hundred dollars, which, she alleges, is the *273amount of a donation propter nuptias made her by her husband in the contract of marriage; and which sum is by said contract to be taken, at the dissolution of the community, out of the best and most available property of the succession. She prays for the payment of the said sum, and claims the benefit of a privilege and lien on the property of the succession, or if she cannot obtain this, that she be paid as an ordinary…
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